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{{Infobox actor |
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| name = David Winning |
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| image = David_Winning0079_-2.jpg |thumb|600px |
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| caption = Film Director |
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| birthdate = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1961|5|8}} 6' 4" |
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| birthplace = {{flagicon|Canada}} [[Calgary]], [[Alberta]], Canada |
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{{flagicon|United States}} Dual Citizen US |
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| occupation = [[film director|director]], [[film producer|producer]], [[screenwriter]], and actor |
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| website = http://www.DavidWinning.com |
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| occupation = [[film director|director]], [[film producer|producer]], [[screenwriter]], and actor |
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| yearsactive = 1976 – present |
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}} |
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'''David Winning''' (born May 8, 1961) is a Canadian-born and U.S. dual citizen [[film director|film and television director]], [[screenwriter]], [[Film producer|producer]], [[film editing|editor]], and occasional actor. Although Winning has worked in numerous film and TV genres, his name is most commonly associated with [[science fiction film|science fiction]]. |
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==Biography== |
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Winning was born in [[Calgary, Alberta]]<ref>[http://www.filmreference.com/film/94/David-Winning.html David Winning Biography in FilmReference.com]</ref>. He became a [[dual citizen]] of the US and Canada in 2003 and lives in Los Angeles. He was making films at the age of ten with a [[Super 8 mm film|Super 8]] camera in Calgary. At 18, he got a [[Canada Council]] grant in 1979{{fact}} to make his first sixteen millimeter drama ''Sequence'', and expanded the plotline into his first feature film [[Storm (1987 film)|Storm]], produced in the summer of 1983 and filmed in the forests and hills of [[Bragg Creek, Alberta]]. It took four years to complete and was released by [[Golan-Globus]]' [[Cannon Films]] International and [[Warner Home Video]] in 1988. |
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At 27, he got work as director on the Canadian-produced series ''[[Friday the 13th: The Series]]'' for [[Paramount Television]]; for this television debut he received three [[Gemini Award]] nominations.{{fact}} His second feature followed in 1992 with [[Killer Image]], a plot-twisting photographic mystery-thriller starring [[Michael Ironside]] and veteran character actor [[M. Emmet Walsh]]. Throughout the 1990s and 2000s he directed more movies, as well as episodes of over twenty series. |
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==Awards== |
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Winning's episodic work received international awards including twenty-two first place golds/platinums overall at the 1992-2008 Houston Film Festival/[[WorldFest]], the 1995 Gold [[Hugo Award]] and two Silver Hugos from the [[Chicago International Film Festival]], and four national [[Gemini Award]] nominations for Best Director/Dramatic Series.{{fact}} In 2002 he received a National award from the [[Directors Guild of Canada]]<ref>[http://www.dgc.ca/awards/flashv1/2002.html Directors Guild National Award 2002]</ref> for outstanding achievement in television drama. He was nominated again in 2006.{{fact}} Winning was honored{{vague}}<!-- how? --> at the 2008 [[Big Island Film Festival]] in Hawaii.{{fact}} He received a Special Career award{{vague}}<!-- from whom? --> on May 17, 2008 with a reception in his honor the same night.{{fact}} ''[[Swamp Devil]]'' also won the [[Golden Honu]] for Best Foreign feature film.{{fact}} In April 2008, Winning won two awards at the Houston Film Festival/[[WorldFest]] in [[Texas]] and a Special Jury Award{{vague}}<!-- where? --> for his work on the [[Lifetime Television]] vampire series "[[Blood Ties (TV series)|Blood Ties]]".{{fact}} |
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==Filmography== |
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===Films=== |
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* ''[[Swamp Devil]]'' |
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* ''[[Black Swarm]]'' |
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* ''[[Something Beneath]]'' |
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* ''[[Merlin: The Quest Begins]]'' |
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* ''[[Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie]]'' |
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* ''[[One of Our Own]]'' |
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* ''[[Killer Image]]'' |
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* ''[[Storm]]'' |
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===Television=== |
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* ''[[Blood Ties (TV series)|Blood Ties]]'' |
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* ''[[Dead Man's Gun]]'' |
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* ''[[Breaker High]]'' |
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* ''[[Goosebumps]]'' |
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* ''[[Sweet Valley High]]'' |
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* ''[[Are You Afraid of the Dark?]]'' |
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* ''[[Matrix]]'' |
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* ''[[Twice In A Lifetime]]'' |
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* ''[[Friday the 13th: The Series]]'' |
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* ''[[Call of the Wild]]'' |
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* ''[[Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda]]'' |
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* ''[[Naturally, Sadie]]'' |
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* ''[[Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict]]'' |
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* ''[[Body & Soul]]'' |
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* ''[[Stargate: Atlantis]]'' |
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* ''[[Dinotopia]]'' |
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* ''[[Dinosapien]]'' |
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==References== |
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<references /> |
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==External links== |
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*{{official|http://www.davidwinning.com/}} |
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* {{imdb|id=0003941 | name=David Winning}} |
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[[Category:1961 births]] |
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[[Category:Canadian film directors]] |
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[[Category:Canadian television directors]] |
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[[Category:Living people]] |
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[[Category:People from Calgary]] |
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[[Category:Canadian film editors]] |
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[[Category:Canadian screenwriters]] |
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[[fr:David Winning]] |
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